Dubbo Council welcomes NBN fire extension to CSU, zoo

The Dubbo Council says the city's economy will benefit from having more large businesses and organisations connected to the National Broadbank Network (NBN) fibre network.

Following an appeal from council, NBN Co has committed to extending the fibre footprint in the city to include outlying facilities like Charles Sturt University, the Dubbo Hospital, Pilon's Industrial Estate and the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.

The roll out of the National Broadband Network has started in the city, and it is expected to be switched on next year.

Council's economic development officer Josie Howard says the fibre network will save businesses time and money.

"In terms of say, the large industrial places, they're uploading, downloading really large documents all of the time like design drawings and those sorts of things," she said.

"Being able to have the speed that the infrastructure allows through the fibre network will just be invaluable to their business and in turn then create a benefit to the Dubbo economy as a whole."

Ms Howard says one area which council wanted included, the North Dubbo industrial precinct did not make the cut.

"Basically NBN said in regards to that area that there just weren't enough premises to warrant them being able to roll it out, that far out of the initial fibre footprint.

"So, they will be able to connect, but there are different ways that they can do that through NBN, it won't actually be a part of this initial roll out."